The Linux analysis in the third barometer shows Red Hat and Ubuntu as the clear Linux leaders, each at 31%.
As with the previous survey findings, this shows a continued trend to these two vendors within the community.
It is important to note that SharePoint only runs on a Microsoft stack and some have speculated that SharePoint is the next operating system from Microsoft. One of the goals of the survey was to examine the influence of SharePoint and the Microsoft stack on the open source community.
Previous surveys have shown that community members tend to evaluate on a Windows laptop and in deployment the majority turn to a Linux server.
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This survey continued the trend with 64% of users preferring to evaluate on Windows. Of interest is that 91% do not intend to use Vista but instead are staying with XP or Windows Server 2003. The logical conclusion from the analysis is the open source community either deploys on Linux, or stays with the Windows operating systems it has, not moving to Vista.
The BPM analysis shows a strong preference for “other” at 62%.
Once again the probable conclusion is that an ECM user, working in an ECM environment, will use the integrated BPM or workflow software. This is also reflected in SharePoint BPM usage in a SharePoint environment.
Business Process Management can break down into a number of categories:
For the former the preference will be for integrated BPM/Workflow. For the latter the preference will likely be for cross application BPM often using BPEL and Web Services
The wiki analysis, similarly to the blog analysis, shows a strong preference for “other” at 60%.
Again, the probable conclusion is that an ECM user, working in an ECM environment, will use the integrated wiki software. This is also reflected in SharePoint wiki usage in a SharePoint environment.
In summary, for the majority of the time the user will prefer the integrated wiki software but if they have a preference they will choose the leading open source Web 2.0 Wiki software – MediaWiki, which powers Wikipedia.
The blog analysis shows a strong preference for “Other” at 63%.
From this data it is possible to draw one of two conclusions. Either “Other” represents a hosted blog being used on the web. The more probable conclusion is that an ECM user, working in an ECM environment, will use the integrated blog software. This is more likely and reflected in SharePoint blog usage in a SharePoint environment.
In summary, for the majority of the time the user will prefer the integrated blog software, but if they have a preference they will choose the leading open source Web 2.0 blog software – WordPress.
Web 2.0 has had a major impact on how users create and access content, particularly from an ease-of-use perspective. One of the goals of the survey was to examine the influence of Enterprise 2.0 technology such as wikis, blogs and portals on ECM.
The browser or portal analysis shows a strong preference for Browser access at 66%. Open Source ECM users want to recreate the external web experience with either simple browser access or browser access with AJAX or Flex components. If users have a preference for a portal they go for open source leaders such as JBoss or Liferay or a segment of SharePoint portal users want an alternative server and repository.
The Rich Internet Application (RIA) analysis shows a strong preference for AJAX at 58%.
AJAX frameworks have for a long time been strong in the open source community. However, the analysis segmented the Windows-only users and found 92% do not use or intend to use Silverlight, 52% want AJAX and 24% Flex.
Windows operating system respondents are turning away from .NET/Web Parts and Silverlight, instead looking for an open stack based on Java with either an AJAX or Flex based client
Previous surveys have shown that community members tend to evaluate on a Windows laptop and in deployment turn to a Linux server. This survey continued the trend with 64% of users preferring to evaluate on Windows.
The Open Source Barometer III shows that 71% of members use or intend to use Java as their architecture.
Java has for a long time been strong in the open source community. However, the analysis further segmented the Windows-only users and found that 86% do not use or intend to use .NET/Web Parts and 53% want a Java architecture. A logical conclusion to this is open source users want an open stack, even on Windows.
Open source is one of the major trends of this decade. Much analysis is based on very small sample sizes. ECM gives an interesting view of the role of open source in an enterprise stack as it sits on top of the stack integrating with both the infrastructure and end user tools.
The third edition of the Open Source Barometer was designed to investigate the impact of Enterprise 2.0 technologies and SharePoint on the stack. Specifically, the following categories were used to drive the survey questions:
The new questions in the third edition of the survey were “for each of the following technologies please indicate which platform or application you are using or intend to use Alfresco on”:
As well as the previous survey questions related to use of:
This survey was conducted from April 1st to September 30th 2008 using data provided by the 25,163 new members of the Alfresco community who joined in that period (the current membership is in excess of 74,000).
The full Alfresco Open Source Barometer survey (including a Slideshare link) is available on:
http://www.opensourcebarometer.org
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You are entitling people to what they were previously denied. As I wrote in my previous post the customer knows:
Customers no longer have to make a trade-off. It is the power of open source that is enabling this. Open source is also about the “good guy” vs. the “big bad guy”, abusing their position of strength with both customers and competitive vendors. Your tag line needs to say this and be a springboard for your messaging that will be more campaign oriented.
As the Blue Ocean Strategy says you need to say it in a tag line.
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When the market had no clear ECM leader with Documentum/EMC, FileNet/IBM, OpenText, Interwoven, Vignette
When a new “Dark Side Gorilla” emerges